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Show Did You Know... ARIZONA The Sonoran Desert National Arizona includes Monument in south-centrnearly half a million acres of the Sonoran Desert, considered the most biologically diverse desert in North America. al CALIFORNIA The first golf course in Southern California Catalina Island Golf was built in 1892. Another notable Course course, Furnace Creek Golf Course in Death Valley, was the first grass course developed in the California desert. At 21-- i feet below sea level, it is also the lowest grass course in the world. IDAHO Sacajawea, the Shoshone Indian woman who became a legendary member of the historic Lewis and Clark expedition in the early 1800s, was named the state's first-ever businesswoman by the Idaho Federation of Business and Professional Women. The honor, bestowed in March of 2001, salutes Sacajawea s .kills as a horse trader. NEVADA Gold was discovered in Rhyolite near Death Valley in 1904, and the area soon liecame a boomtown. Today, it's a ghost town, where one of the few remaining structures is Tom Kellys bottle house a structure built of beer, liquor, and medicine bottles dunked with adobe in about 1905, when other building materials were scarce. now-vaca- nt OREGON The Cape Blanco Lighthouse near Port Orford (pop. 1,153), built in 1870, is Oregon's westernmost lighthouse, the highest above the sea (at 245 feet), and its oldest continuously operating light. Additionally, the states first woman lighthouse keeper, Mabel E. Bretherton, !xgan her duties there in 1903. UTAH Dead Horse Point State Park near Moab (pop. 4,779) offers spectacular scenery created over 150 million years, when the Colorado River began carving its way to the Gulf of California. The point is 6,000 feet above sea level and towers 2,000 feet over the river below. The Territorial Scatehouse in Fillmore (pop. 2,253) is the oldest governmental building in Utah but was never completed. The south wing was built in rime tor the December 1855 meeting of the territorial legislature, but before another lull legislative session met again, the seat of government had returned to Salt Lake City. WASHINGTON Kettle FalLs in northeast Washington once provided rich fishing waters to American Indians in the region. Archaeologists Inrlieve they caught as many as 1 ,000 fish a day during salmon runs. The fills disappeared after the i onstruction of Grand Coulee Dam and Roosevelt Reservoir in the 1 930s. |